Your home town in the news Bit, regarding OxyContin: 
 
http://www.dailymail.co.u...lood-black-market.html

When did the Daily Mail become considered "news?" LMAO!

craigb
When did the Daily Mail become considered "news?" LMAO!

It's actually a very decent paper in parts, the trouble is that they put out so much content that some of it is bound to be crap (especially the endless Kardashian articles). But oftentimes I'll find that their coverage of a story is far more in depth than most newspapers, including some of the more "serious" broadsheets. Especially when some big event, disaster or terrorist attack happens. They usually have very extensive photographic documentation of the scene, way more eyewitness accounts and way more info than other media outlets. 

Do they go into proper serious matters like how the top dart players in the world are now Dutch and not English? 

Hey, they didn't ask permission to photograph my front yard!
 

craigb
Do they go into proper serious matters like how the top dart players in the world are now Dutch and not English? 

Oh the glory days of Eric Bristow and Jockey Wilson are looooong gone.....

sharke
I always say the best smokes you have are the ones you've earned. I always got better results smoking after work of some kind. Never understood the "wake and bake" mindset. 
 
Back in 1991 me and my old man worked a milk delivery route together. We'd work from about 2am until 9am, often in the freezing cold and it was hard work lugging those crates around. When we were done we'd share a joint on the drive home. That was one well deserved smoke and I loved it. Then he'd drop me off at my place and I'd smoke another one with the headphones on. I wish I could limit it to "every other weekend" or something like that, but the trouble is if I get a bit these days I cannot resist having a toke every night. One thing that's great if you're a "once in a blue moon" smoker like me is listening to the music you're working on after a toke. Sometimes when you're working on a track for a long time you can lose perspective, get disillusioned and disheartened with it. And then you listen to it with stoned ears and you think "wow, this is actually pretty good!" It restores my enthusiasm in what I'm working on. 

I once read an interview with Lindsey Buckingham and he said that he frequently toked up when he was mixing his tracks- for the same reason you give. I think you are on to something, here.

Bert Guy

sharke
I always say the best smokes you have are the ones you've earned. I always got better results smoking after work of some kind. Never understood the "wake and bake" mindset. 
 
Back in 1991 me and my old man worked a milk delivery route together. We'd work from about 2am until 9am, often in the freezing cold and it was hard work lugging those crates around. When we were done we'd share a joint on the drive home. That was one well deserved smoke and I loved it. Then he'd drop me off at my place and I'd smoke another one with the headphones on. I wish I could limit it to "every other weekend" or something like that, but the trouble is if I get a bit these days I cannot resist having a toke every night. One thing that's great if you're a "once in a blue moon" smoker like me is listening to the music you're working on after a toke. Sometimes when you're working on a track for a long time you can lose perspective, get disillusioned and disheartened with it. And then you listen to it with stoned ears and you think "wow, this is actually pretty good!" It restores my enthusiasm in what I'm working on. 

I once read an interview with Lindsey Buckingham and he said that he frequently toked up when he was mixing his tracks- for the same reason you give. I think you are on to something, here.

While I'm certain of the value of weed as a creative/inspirational tool, I'm not sure it's advisable to mix on it. The reason being is that I think marijuana plays tricks with your ears. In my case, it seems to greatly enhance the separation of instruments on the soundstage. There have been times when I have wrestled with trying to EQ instruments that are clashing, and feeling like it's probably time to rethink the arrangement altogether, but then I've had a smoke and listened to it and all of a sudden it sounds like everything's perfectly EQ'd and that everything has it's own distinct space in the mix, almost like I can reach out and touch everything. I'm pretty certain that isn't good for making EQ decisions that translate to the non-stoner demographic 

sharke

craigb
Do they go into proper serious matters like how the top dart players in the world are now Dutch and not English? 

Oh the glory days of Eric Bristow and Jockey Wilson are looooong gone.....

I've beaten the first (in the mid-80's when he was #1) and had a drink with the second.  Good times!  

craigb

sharke

craigb
Do they go into proper serious matters like how the top dart players in the world are now Dutch and not English? 

Oh the glory days of Eric Bristow and Jockey Wilson are looooong gone.....

I've beaten the first (in the mid-80's when he was #1) and had a drink with the second.  Good times!  

I feel like darts in general isn't as popular any more. The 70's and 80's were its heyday. In the UK we even had a darts themed game show (Bullseye) on which legends like Bristow and Wilson would sometimes appear. Bullseye was awesome, I've been known to watch clips on YouTube sometimes...